Top 100 Bowed Quotes
#1. I can talk to him," Rhys offered. "He needs to know you still love him."
"No," Rhi said loudly, her face once more a mask of indifference.
Rhys bowed his head in acceptance. It was the same answer each time he'd asked through the centuries. "As you wish.
Donna Grant
#2. The wayfarer was lean and keen-featured, and somewhat bowed at the shoulders; his paws were thin and long, his eyes much wrinkled at the corners, and he wore small gold ear rings in his neatly-set well-shaped ears. His
Kenneth Grahame
#3. If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are fighting the wrong battle.
T. B. Joshua
#4. When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.
Shunryu Suzuki
#5. His stuff ... Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved into giggles. "Long, get it?"
"My brother, everyone." George bowed to an invisible crowd with a martyred expression. "A refined and sensitive creature.
Ilona Andrews
#6. He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt around him, insisting on his impotence. But his lips were bowed in a placid smile, a look of fondness, as if he had come at last to approve his disintegration.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#7. He bowed over her hand and kissed the knuckles. He'd never despised a glove more in his life.
Kristi Ann Hunter
#8. The fibres of our secular hearts are bent and bowed beneath the unaccustomed tempest.
Virginia Woolf
#9. Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break?
Violet Cross
#10. The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down." "Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.
Winston Graham
#11. They entered the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. - Matthew 2:11
Gary Chapman
#12. He sat there looking at her smiling and laughing, watching her hair fall over her eyes and she setting it back behind her ear, He turned away bowed his head down and smiled himself looking back at the sky.
Akshay Vasu
#13. To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
#14. While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.
Charles P. Pierce
#15. She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)
Jim Fusilli
#16. Apollo nodded and Dionysus bowed to the room, sweeping his arms out to the sides with a flourish. And then he was gone.
I shook my head. "Okay. Who else thinks he was high as a kite?"
Hands went up across the room and I grinned.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#17. Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
James Fenimore Cooper
#18. Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
#19. You are not letting me finish." Sedirion bowed his head apologetically. "Dreams are dreams. Money is money. Who cares where they come from. Am I the one to look a gift horse in the mouth?
Daniel Pearlman
#20. Sebastian simply shrugged once more, placed his hand over his mouth in an exaggerated motion, and then bowed, gesturing to Robert. Robert translated this as 'I'm deeply sorry, but having promised my cousin that I wouldn't say a word, I must now embarrass him as best as I can with gestures.
Courtney Milan
#21. This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.
Oswald J. Smith
#22. Her smile was as fresh as a half-opened lotus. Siddhartha bowed and looked into her eyes, saying in a quiet voice, Thank you, princess.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#23. My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.
Karen Joy Fowler
#24. The others took a step in, bowed their heads to listen. Holy Communion of scuttlebutt.
Lauren Groff
#25. What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
Jean-Paul Sartre
#26. Again, Pyotr knew a pang. He saw her heavy with child, bowed over an oven, sitting before a loom, the grace gone...
Katherine Arden
#27. This new Ariella, quiet and sad, bowed under the weight of terrible knowledge and countless secrets,
Julie Kagawa
#28. I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln's safety. Much to Coffin's surprise, the President "lifted his own hat from his head and bowed to the old man."24
Noah Andre Trudeau
#30. absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.
Lewis Carroll
#31. The distant women bowed themselves; Nordic women who lived with their eyes looking at servants, as they were waiting; glaring in an intense white aspect, because they were athletic; because they had haircuts.
Jarrett McCall
#32. You don't know anything about me."
"Everything I need to know is written all over your face."
"Right now the only thing my face should be conveying is that it thinks you're a jerk."
He bowed his head as if to say, exactly.
Kasie West
#33. And who am I, mighty Khan?
She felt warmth in him then, the beginnings of a smile deep inside.
He spread his wings.
Bowed his head.
Purred.
YOU ARE YUKIKO.
Jay Kristoff
#34. I passed the morning that knew no grief and at night bowed to the darkness that breathes. While in passing may seem brief, there is no simplicity to the nature of change.
Dew Platt
#35. Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#36. The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#37. If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't ... "
Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper."
You'll have no choice.
Frank Beddor
#38. Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
Herman Melville
#39. Do you find
Your patience so predominant in your nature
That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled,
To pray for this good man and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave,
And beggared yours for ever?
William Shakespeare
#40. The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.
Ernest Becker
#41. It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.
Billy Graham
#42. This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.
Ian McDonald
#43. Cards decorated with a colorful spray of plum blossoms in the background. Yasuda admired it for a moment before putting it into his shirt pocket. I had the feeling no words we spoke could be as eloquent as this simple interaction, so I bowed to him and went on to the next man.
Arthur Golden
#44. The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.
Joe Arpaio
#45. The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist ... Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
#46. Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.
Orson Scott Card
#47. The adept is only adept, because such an instrument she crafted and bowed her soul to be.
Bryant McGill
#48. Who's that with you?' Stephen asked.
'Death,' I said.
Edward bowed.
'Trust you to bring death to the ball, ma petite.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. Cedarstar was the first of the nine cats to step forward. He bowed his head to Brokentail and meowed, "I give you a life to live by the warrior code. Remember it well, Brokentail, and let it be your guide. Wiser cats than you or I have lost their way without it.
Erin Hunter
#50. Gray's soul had turned to this white girl and bowed in worship before her. To a large extent the lad was his
Oscar Wilde
#51. He bowed. "With respect, Sharum Ka, how are we to get your warriors to the city on the lake to conquer it without boats?" "We will build our own. How hard can it ... " Jayan trailed off, looking at the huge cargo vessels with their intricate rigging. "Put them out!" he cried.
Peter V. Brett
#52. You want me to paint you?' Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.
'All of me.' James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.
Tan Redding
#53. I curtsied. 'Thank you, Mr. Stansbury. And I apologize for my lack of grace.'
He bowed. 'Never apologize for being courageous, Miss Withersby.
Siri Mitchell
#54. You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.
J.M. Coetzee
#55. -The dream has a clear message: while binding shelves, surprisingly Joseph sheaf arose and stood upright. Others shelves stood round about Joseph's and bowed to his. -The message concluded with a definite purpose: the
David Oluremi
#56. Gracious, I must be the luckiest drunk who ever floated the Arkansas River, or ---" he bowed slightly to the ladies, offering his warmest grin, "--- is this Heaven?
Sandra Jones
#57. Courage can be displayed in many forms, my lord,' I said gently. 'Sometimes it's evident in the knight charging forward with the lance on his steed. But perhaps it can also take the form of a head bowed before the enemy.
Jody Hedlund
#58. I pulled open my window and leaned out. "Are you daft?" I whispered loudly.
He bowed extravagantly, deeply, his dark tousled hair falling over his brow. "Such poetry, my lady.
Alyxandra Harvey
#60. Costis bowed stiffly. I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.
Megan Whalen Turner
#61. Beside him, another guard recognized me, and one by one they bowed, deeply and reverently.
Kiera Cass
#62. His head bowed and his lips fastened softly on my nipple. I groaned, feeling the half-painful prickle of the milk rushing through the tiny ducts. I put a hand behind his head, and pressed him slightly closer. "Harder," I whispered.
Diana Gabaldon
#63. Hearthstone bowed his head in gratitude. He stepped away from the dais, cradling his new pouch o' power like it was a swaddled baby.
Rick Riordan
#64. mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun. He was otherwise quite self-possessed, bowed to the Judge, and stood
Charles Dickens
#65. ps.146.8 Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous, ps.146.9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
Anonymous
#66. The words come out of Helen Justineau in a flat monotone. Parks thinks of Gallagher's written report, with its proceeding tos and its thereupons. But Justineau's bowed head and the tightness of her grip on the parapet wall add their own commentary. "I
M.R. Carey
#67. Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan
#68. And that was when Ryker collapsed. One second he was standing, the next second his ass was to the floor, his knees bent to the ceiling, his forearms to his knees and his head was bowed between his legs. Merry, Cal and Layne all looked down at a big man brought low by a miracle.
Kristen Ashley
#69. He slipped his hand under hers and bowed his head over it. His breath touched her skin and sent a tingling sensation up her arm.
Melanie Dickerson
#70. I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.
Rachel Caine
#71. herself, she stood outside Mark's door, head bowed, contemplating
Cheryl Taylor
#72. A sense of great masses moving at visionary speeds, of giants dancing, of eternal sorrows consoled, of he knew not what and yet he had always known, awoke in him with the very first bass of the deep-mouthed dirge, and bowed down his spirit as if the gate of heaven had opened before him.
C.S. Lewis
#73. Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
Ann Voskamp
#74. She cradled his head and bowed over him, wiping her damp cheeks with one hand.
"We're so different from each other."
"We live a long time. It's good to not be bored.
Thea Harrison
#75. It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
Jude Watson
#76. The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before you know where you are you are on a gigantic book-binge. My brief case was full to bursting and I had bundles of books under both arms. I was bowed down by the weight of them.
R.T. Campbell
#77. But I do know," he continued, "how to salvage an evening for a girl in a party dress." He stood up, bowed. Held out his hand. "May I have this dance?"
"Here?
Judy Blundell
#78. The columbine and iris bowed down to make way for bolder sprays of red valerian, and a mingled profusion of clustered Canterbury bells and sweet william, pale blues and pinks intertwined, danced at the feet of more stately spears of deep-purple foxglove and monkshood.
Susanna Kearsley
#79. Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Bryce Courtenay
#80. As he made his way, he ploughed his bare feet through the mud as a child, head bowed as a child, interested as a child neither in where he was going nor in what might happen next but only in the furrow his foot opened that vanished a moment later.
Richard Flanagan
#81. He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. Your Majesty.
Kimberly Derting
#82. What are you staring at, sailor?'
His ice eyes did not flicker. 'My captain, ma'am.'
'Get back to work, Seton.'
He bowed.
Katharine Ashe
#83. It was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she met my Uncle's glare as if she were his equal.
Philippa Gregory
#84. I'll need hot water for washing." Hart barked.
Wellford murmured, "Immediately sir," as he bowed back out the door. He did not say, "Of course, sir. I bring you hot water every single morning, even when you haven't debased yourself for a woman.
Victoria Dahl
#85. Among earth's inhabitants, scattered in every land, there are those who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Like the stars of heaven, which appear only at night, these faithful ones will shine forth when darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.
Ellen G. White
#86. Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.
Vincent Van Gogh
#87. There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.
Shana Abe
#88. Alexey Alexandrovitch bowed his head in assent.
Leo Tolstoy
#89. And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
Claude McKay
#90. Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him." "Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick." She
J.D. Robb
#91. He sighed and bowed deeply. Sundari. I was standing here thinking nothing could be more beautiful than this sunset tonight, but I was mistaken. You standing here in the setting sun with your hair and skin aglow is almost more than a man can ... fully appreciate.
Colleen Houck
#92. Thank you, sir. Thus far the highlight of my stay has been making love to you.
Mr. Nobley bowed in acknowledgment. The conversation completely quieted.
Shannon Hale
#93. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
#94. None save her people knew her history, but there were wonderful stories of how she had bowed to tradition, and concentrated in herself the characteristics of a thousand wizard fathers. In the blossom of her youth she had sought strange knowledge, and had tasted thereof, and rued.
("The Basilisk")
R. Murray Gilchrist
#95. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.
H.P. Lovecraft
#96. Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women."
I let out a sound that wasn't quite a laugh. "Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?
Kiera Cass
#97. We bowed our heads together, and I prayed and then Nimmie prayed. Hers was a beautiful, simple prayer, beginning in faith and repentance and ending with joy and praise.
Janette Oke
#98. I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.
Kristen Iversen
#99. They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.
Robert Frost
#100. I closed my eyes, bowed my head and thought, AH, HELL ...
P.C. Cast
